| 释义 |
mis-say, v. arch.|mɪsˈseɪ|
Pa. tense and pa. pple. mis-said |mɪsˈsɛd|. Forms: see mis-1 1 and say v.: also 4 misain, misaie; pa. tense misede.
[ME. misseggen, missei(n), etc. Cf. MDu. misseggen, LG. miszeggen, MHG. mis(se)sagen.]
1. trans. To speak evil of or against (a person); to abuse, slander, revile, vilify. Now arch. and poet.
a1225Ancr. R. 186 Biddeð ȝeorne uor þeo ou eni vuel doð oðer missiggeð. c1290Beket 2036 in S. Eng. Leg., Hold þinne mouthþ,..Þov mis-seist mi louerd þe king. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 1168 Þow haddest vnriȝt, So te misain a noble kniȝt! c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 353 Crist was so patient,..þat whan he was mys-said he cursid not aȝen. 1470–85Malory Arthur v. i. 161 The kynge commaunded that none of them vpon payne of dethe to myssaye them ne doo them ony harme. 1541Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. E ij b, Myssaye nat the auncyentes, nor dysprayse nat Hyppocrates. 1568Jacob & Esau iv. xi, Cursed be the man that shall thee curse or missay. 1631Heywood 1st Pt. Fair Maid of West iii. 33 Is she such a Saint, None can missay her? 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 923 Far liefer had I fight a score of times Than hear thee so missay me and revile. 1888Morris Dream John Ball xii. 125 These men shall the blind and the fearful mock and missay.
†b. To say (something) with evil, abusive, or slanderous intent. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 14779 Mikel of him can þai missai. 1340Ayenb. 189 By þe kueade huiche he ssel miszigge. 1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xi. 229 The myssayenge that ye mys⁓sayed me. 1530Palsgr. 638/1, I never myssayd hym worde. 1593Drayton Ecl. ii. 95 And sore repents what he before misse-said. 1614Sylvester Parl. Vertues Royall Wks. (Grosart) II. 134/2 And can suffer nought 'Gainst them to be mis-done, mis-said, mis-thought.
†2. intr. To speak evil; to speak abusively, slanderously, arrogantly, or the like. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 13905 Þou missais, deuel es in þe. c1386Chaucer Manciple's T. 249 He that hath misseyd..He may by no wey clepe his word agayn. 1481Caxton Myrr. i. v. 28 To whom it pleseth that they messaye. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 27 Her tongue..brought forth speeches myld when she would have missayd.
†b. To speak evil of. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 19420 Tua wittnes fals þai þam puruaid, To tell he had o godd missaid. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 233 And of mynne olde seruauntis thow misseyst. 1477Paston Lett. III. 185 Sum evyll tong..myss sayeth of me. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 106 Their ill haviour garres men missay, Both of their doctrine, and of theyr faye.
3. trans. With pronominal or cognate obj.: To say amiss, wrongly, or incorrectly. Now rare.
a1400Cursor M. 25192 (Cott. Galba) And of oure praier crist es payd Sum tyme all if it be missayd. 1629H. Burton Truth's Triumph 254 Let men beleeue that..which the diuine Scriptures doe say, and not which mens tongues doe mis-say. 1641Milton Animadv. §2 Wks. 1851 III. 203 Lest any thing in generall might be missaid in their publick Prayers through ignorance. 1665Wither Lord's Prayer Preamble, Beseeching him to pardon what is misdone or missaid, by others, or misunderstood by me.
b. intr. To say what is not right or correct; to say something wrong or amiss.
1390Gower Conf. I. 19 And natheles I can noght seie, In aunter if that I misseye. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vii. 174 Ye have myssayed, For I never sawe Reynawde nor I wote not what he is. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 2 Or Diggon her is, or I missaye. 1611A. Gill in Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. Pref., Great love and little skill may cause mee to missay. 1816Byron Siege Cor. Introd., Some of mosque, and some of church, And some, or I missay, of neither. 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 417 The Sacred Pictures—where skulks Innocence enshrined, Or I missay! |